Wallybanger
New member
Ok, I have made some progress with my airplane model but now I'm thinking about remodeling the fuselage again so that it's easier to modify and draw.
The way this fuselage is to be built involves laying the sides out flat and gluing all of the pieces together. Then, the sides are curved as you glue the cross members in between the two sides. I have created surfaces, projected between 2 curves and used those surfaces to create ribs with sides tangent to the surface.
Here's what I'm thinking....
I would like to have surfaces, created from points or curves that I can modify. I will then lay out my ribs on those surfaces (so the ribs will be driven by the surfaces). I would then like to be able to FLATTEN those surfaces, which would bend back the ribs, to simulate a flat pattern that can then be used to built the actual plane! Is this possible to do? How would a guy flatten a surface?
I know about the "flattening" in R16 under composites and the Unfold in R17 but I would like to use R16 so I don't have to install r17 on a different computer. I played a bit with the flattening in R16 and don't really understand how it works.
Any advice?
Thanks
The way this fuselage is to be built involves laying the sides out flat and gluing all of the pieces together. Then, the sides are curved as you glue the cross members in between the two sides. I have created surfaces, projected between 2 curves and used those surfaces to create ribs with sides tangent to the surface.
Here's what I'm thinking....
I would like to have surfaces, created from points or curves that I can modify. I will then lay out my ribs on those surfaces (so the ribs will be driven by the surfaces). I would then like to be able to FLATTEN those surfaces, which would bend back the ribs, to simulate a flat pattern that can then be used to built the actual plane! Is this possible to do? How would a guy flatten a surface?
I know about the "flattening" in R16 under composites and the Unfold in R17 but I would like to use R16 so I don't have to install r17 on a different computer. I played a bit with the flattening in R16 and don't really understand how it works.
Any advice?
Thanks